EM_GETLINE message (Winuser.h)

Copies a line of text from an edit control and places it in a specified buffer. You can send this message to either an edit control or a rich edit control.

Parameters

wParam

The zero-based index of the line to retrieve from a multiline edit control. A value of zero specifies the topmost line. This parameter is ignored by a single-line edit control.

lParam

A pointer to the buffer that receives a copy of the line. Before sending the message, set the first word of this buffer to the size, in TCHARs, of the buffer. For ANSI text, this is the number of bytes; for Unicode text, this is the number of characters. The size in the first word is overwritten by the copied line.

Return value

The return value is the number of TCHARs copied. The return value is zero if the line number specified by the wParam parameter is greater than the number of lines in the edit control.

Remarks

Edit controls: The copied line does not contain a terminating null character.

Rich edit controls: Supported in Microsoft Rich Edit 1.0 and later. The copied line does not contain a terminating null character, unless no text was copied. If no text was copied, the message places a null character at the beginning of the buffer. For information about the compatibility of rich edit versions with the various system versions, see About Rich Edit Controls.

Requirements

See also

Reference

EM_LINELENGTH

Edit_GetLine

Other Resources

WM_GETTEXT